From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 9 14:37:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA10839 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 14:37:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA10807 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 14:37:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA00154; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 22:35:03 GMT (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199802092235.WAA00154@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Frank Griffith cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: ppp.log file gets too big! In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 09 Feb 1998 15:21:15 CST." <01BD356E.5D6C5F60@fast1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 22:35:02 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have FreeBSD 2.2.5 running on a 486-66 system. The system > uses two (2) 325 meg hard drives. > > I am using the FreeBSD machine as a gateway to the Internet > for some Windows 95 machines. Whenever I download a > bunch of files the system halts because the /var directory > gets overloaded. I look into the file system and find this huge > file ppp.log. It seems to be the problem, so I rm it. But then > the system reports errors when running ppp even after I reboot. > > How can I keep this ppp.log file from getting too big? or How can I > effectively clean it up? Change the `set log' line in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf to read something like: set log phase link > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message